Except McDonalds, or are they all imported from other countries?
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Anonymous2005-11-12 22:45
Poutine.
oh, wait. that's Canadian.
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Anonymous2005-11-12 22:58
Native American food?
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Anonymous2005-11-13 9:08
turtles
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Anonymous2005-11-13 10:44
Pemmican, California rolls, Philly cheese steaks, deep dish pizza, chili, fried chicken, most soft drinks, Thanksgiving dinners, New England / Boston clam chowder, mint juleps, apple pies, the list goes on. Since America was built upon boatloads of immigrants and slaves, a lot of the cuisine is imported.
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Anonymous2005-11-13 20:19
CAWN BREAD
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Anonymous2005-11-13 21:51
Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, Grits, Biscuits n' Gravy, Ham Hocks, Chitlins, Jowls and some Corn Bread.
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Anonymous2005-11-14 0:46
mac donalds
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Anonymous2005-11-14 1:48
pizza was invented in america so i guess thats american food
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Anonymous2005-11-14 10:18
Pizza was invented by the greeks while in Italy.
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Anonymous2005-11-14 16:01
Deep dish new york style pizza was invented in new york duh. Before that, pizza was a dry food, with very little sauce and tough bread, similar to a calzone, not very popular among USians.
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Anonymous2005-11-14 18:07
I thought pizza was invented in italy.
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Anonymous2005-11-15 12:06 (sage)
>>12
Yes, although I've heard somewhere that it had it's roots in Japan. New York style pizza originated from New York, and is very different.
Cornbread was originally an Amerind food. The aboriginal inhabitants of North America cultivated a number of vegetables and grains unknown in the rest of the world, including tomatoes, potatoes, hot peppers, maize, string beans, and many species of squash.
Chop suey was created in San Francisco by Chinese immigrants using Chinese cooking techniques and the vegetables and other ingredients locally available. It is only faintly similar to the Cantonese dish, lo mein.
Any dish made anywhere in the world using tomatoes, potatoes, hot peppers, pumpkin, string beans, or maize is using vegetables first cultivated in the Americas. In a very real sense, kimchi, polenta, potato latkes, mealie-pap (African cornmeal porridge) and ravioli are foods with roots in the New World.
Are there foods distinctly USAian, that the rest of the world doesn't eat? Sure. Pumpkin pie. Spam. Roast turkey. Hamburgers and weenies were German creations that the Germans, perhaps wisely, decided to abandon before the turn of the century, but Americans adopted them quite enthusiastically. Chicago style pizza looks about as much like Sicilian pizza as chop suey looks like lo mein. Macaroni and cheese--no, wait, the Canadians eat that too. New England boiled dinner. New York Jewish delicatessen style kosher dill pickles don't exist anywhere else on Earth today, though maybe 75 years ago you could have gotten them in Warsaw or Berlin. American delicatessen style corned beef is likewise unique today, though Irishmen 150 years ago might have recognized it.
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Anonymous2006-01-25 3:53
IT'S PEANUTBUTTER JELLY TIME!!
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but seriously, peanutbutter is all american.
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Anonymous2006-01-25 3:59
50 GHET!
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Anonymous2006-01-26 17:15
Cajun.
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Anonymous2006-01-28 7:29
>>48 New York Jewish delicatessen style kosher dill pickles don't exist anywhere else on Earth today
>>51
Cajun is French Acadian mixed with Creole and Spanish. Should the USA take credit for a mix determined before its formation?
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Anonymous2006-01-29 7:23
Pretty much anything considered soul food, tex-mex or creole.
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Anonymous2006-01-29 14:53
Only Americans and Canadians eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanuts and peanut products are eaten the world over, but only in North America are they ground to a paste and smeared between slices of bread.
>>52
You just looked up 'cajun' in wikipedia didn't you? Cajun food originated from the Cajun immigrants but was formed in the US using ingrediants found locally in Lousiana. It also includes techniques and ingrediants from the native Americans such as using sassafras to thicken and flavor stew now known as gumbo.
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Anonymous2006-02-07 3:48
Sigh... dumb thread
>>48
Okay, just because a food uses an ingredient of American Origin doesn't necesarily make it an american food. For example: yes, nabchae kimchi uses a lot of red pepper, but kimchi is a korean invention and is predominately korean food, kimchi eaters are in the definate minority in America, so why call kimchi american if it is not really a food of american Identity ?
Really there is NO purely American Food, America is a country of immigrants and interacting cultures. "Our" food is not invented rather, it evolves, culturally, kind of like any Sushi that has Cheese or Avacado, quite unique to America, but definateley not a purely american invention.
Now you may say "what about apple pie ?" or "what about [fill in the blank food that is commonly considered american without an obvious history ] ?" Chances are that it evolved in some way from british food. You think Apple Pie is American ? HA ! Apple Pie has been eaten in England for hundreds of years, it was brought over to America by the early British colonist.
To add insult to injury to your desire to find a national Identity in your food, what ever your national Identity may be, there is no such thing as [fill in the blank name of a country] Food!! All recipies are the result of cultural evolultion, there is no such thing as a revolutionary food invention, recipies are formed from years of modification by people all over the world all of the time, even in the most stereotypically Traditional countries of the world. In japan for example, meat (but not fish ) was illegal from the early 1600s to about 1867, and even then meat (though not fish) based recipies were very rare in japan, Now adays you will see the japanes eating Pork Ramen, Curries, Tonkatsu, potato croquets, and all sorts of foods foreign in Orign. And this kind of thing is happening all over the world all the time.
Italian pizza is complete ass, american pizza is WAY better and completely different.
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Anonymous2006-03-22 16:53
>>40
I thought the Irish were eating potatoes long before the new world was colonized?
I think corn/maize-based foods may have originated here... I'm pretty sure corn didn't traverse the seas until at least the Spanish colonization of central america.
Turkey, aye, the giant chickens are native to north america.
French fries bear a resemblance to chips (the British food), as in 'fish and chips'. Essentially, they're smaller chips. I doubt they originate ehre.
New York deep-dish is a pizza derivative from the US, but pizzas as a whole are ancient...
Chocolate chip cookies were created at a toll booth somewhere in the US, when chocolate chunks put into cookie mix to try and make chocolate cookies didn't melt as planned.
Hot dogs / red hots / frankfurts... german... as are hamburgers.
Velveeta doesn't count, it isn't food.
Potato chips originated from a pissy French cook who got pissed when a customer kept ordering their potatoes sliced thinner. To spite him, he sliced them super-thin and salted them heavily... and the guy loved it.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 2:24
Potato chips are American.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 3:40
Velveeta is sort of foodish.
Well, okay, if I can go off on a tangent here, Velveeta is made from cheese. It is a mechanical mixture of cream cheese and mild cheddar cheese, plus some Swiss cheese. By weight it is more cream cheese than anything else.
It wasn't created to be sliced up and made into sandwiches, though of course you can do that with it if you want. It was created to be a food service supply item, an ingredient for restaurants to use in cheese sauces for things like nachos and mac & cheese that melts more easily and more evenly than anything previously available.
Things like "Cheez Wiz" came later. I am actually not sure what "Cheez Wiz" is made from but the "Cheez" in the name makes me wonder.
For that purpose, Velveeta is an engineering success. Would I choose to make a sandwich from it? Probly not. That's not what it's for.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 17:51
Cheese straws, breakfast gravy (ew, >.<), sucotash (I don't know what that is though) buffalo wings, velveeta, and potato chips. >>33
The first historical recordings of people putting topppings on flatbread is from the Egyptians. (Alton Brown taught me that)
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AK2006-03-24 2:11
What about Cajun food?
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Anonymous2006-03-24 5:16
>>79
Succotash is basicly lima beans and corn and is a native american dish.
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Anonymous2006-03-28 0:53
johnny cakes
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corn things since corn came from americas
Pizza was invented my sand nigga's in the middle eastlike a guy in this thread said probaly in egypt as a food for the poor cause you can slap your leftovers on it and cheap vegies .
then it came to italy .
>>13
Japan ? i dont think so not everything originated in japan most off the japanese crap came from china anyway .
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Anonymous2006-04-01 0:16 (sage)
Hamburgers.
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Anonymous2006-04-14 20:12
Did you know that the Tacos were invented in USA?
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Anonymous2006-04-14 20:25
Someone said it before but it's worth mentioning again: BBQ!